Gasoline-stove



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. M. S. SAGER.

GASOLINE STOVE.

No. 405,274. Patented June 18, 1889.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

M. S. SAGER.

GASOLINE STOVE.

No. 405,274. Patented June 18, 1889 UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFIcE.

MARCUS S. SAGER, OF WVASHINGTON COURT-HOUSE, OHIO:

' GASOLINE-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,274, dated June 18, 1889.

Application filed September 26, 1887. Serial No. 260,746. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARcUs S. SAGER, a resident of lVashington Court-House, in the county of Fayette and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gasoline-Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

' My invention has for its object the construction of a gasoline or vapor stove with the part-s so united and connected that it can be readily folded or packed in a small compass for storage or shipping.

Another object of my invention is to provide the construction of the vapor-pipes and their connection to the tanks and burners in such a manner that they can be readily united and attached for folding.

Another object of my invention is to provide improved means for heating the watertank.

The various features of my invention are hereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvement in position for use. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the top portion of the stove. Fig. 3 is a front elevation showing the parts folded in position for packing. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal central section of the lower portion of the stove. Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view of the water-heater cast on and with the burner. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the shelf-brace; Fig. '7, detail views showing the construction of the hinge-joint and stops for the folding legs, and Fig. 8 a detail enlarged perspective view showing the manner of pivoting the legs together.

1 represents the top plate of the stove, provided with heater-openings 2.

3 represents d ependentlegs rigidly attached to the top plate and depending down there from, to which are hinged the legs 4 by the pivot-pins 5. These legs fold inward, as shown in Fig. 3. In order to stiffen and support the legs, I construct a drip-pan 6, so that it can be readily attached and form a brace. This is accomplished by means of the hooked edges '7, which engage on the cross-rails 8, which confiect the posts 4 together.

In order to prevent the legs turning too far outward, I have arranged stops 38, secured to the folding legs, which strike against flanges 39, projecting out from the dependent posts 3, which brace the legs against any outward movement, and the drip-pan (3 braces them against any in ward movement, thereby mak- A ing a rigid frame. The stops 38 are formed by constructing the legs 4 of sheet metal and bending the edge of the metal to stand at right angles to the body of the legs. .The legs 3 are also of sheet metal, and the edge of the legs 3 are braced by means of brace-arms 50,

of sheet metal, having flanged ends, Fig. 8, riveted, respectively, to the top plate 1 and said rigid legs.

The posts, feet, and cross-rails at each end are preferably made of one piece. The drippan 6 can be readily detached by lifting it off the cross-rails, which allows the legs to fold,

and when attached in position it performs the office 0f drip-pan and brace for the frameof the stove.

It is sometimes desirable ,tohave the oven at one end of the stove and made detachable. For this purposel have provided ashelf 9,rigidly attached to the brace-bracket 10. The lower end of this brace-bracket is provided with a hooked end 11,which rests upon the drip-pan and cross-rails, as shown in Fig. 4. The inner end of this shelf has a similar hooked end 12, which engages over the cross-rail 13. This construction allows the oven-shelf to be readily detached for foldin g. I have shown this shelf in Fig. 2 as having two openings 14 to receive the ordinary vapor-burner. It is desirable to have a shelf, as well as the water-tank and gasoline-tank.

Another object of myimprovement consists in attaching these two parts to the under side of the shelf, 15 representing the water-tank, and 16 the gasoline-tank. In order to heat this water-tank, I have provided a tubular heater 17, which is cast on and with the ordinary burn er-plate 18. It is shown as attached by means of ribs 1.), the parts 17 18 19 being formed of one piece of metal.

20 represents, say, the inlet-orifice; 21, the orifice leading to the water-tank pipe 22, con necting with orifice 21. connects with orifice 20.

24: represents union-couplings for allowing the pipes 22 23 to be detached from the tanks 15 16, so that the latter maybe folded. This is accomplished by casting the bracket 25 on and with the shelf 26. By reason of the burner-plate 18 being highly heated on account of the ribbed connections, as well as the proximity of the pipe 17, the latter becomes highly heated, causing the circulation of water through the pipes 22 23, through the water-tank, and around through the heater. This method has several advantages, especially in a knockdown stove. Astheheating coil is rigidly attached to the burner, it is always in position, and allows the pipes to be taken out and the parts to be folded without liability of injury and displacement of the parts.

27 represents hinges connecting the bracket 25 to thetop plate 1 of the stove.

28 represents a feeding-pipe,whicl1 connects the gasoline-tank 16 with the main distributing-pipe 29. Thispipe is connected by unioncouplings 30,which allows it to be readily detached for turning the shelf and its sustained tanks 15 16 over into the position shown in Fig. 3.

It is obvious that the hinge-bolts 5 and 27 may be made detachable and theparts folded without employing said bolts as hinge-centers; but. I prefer the hinged form, as the stove can be more readily folded and set up.

It will be observed that the distributingpipe 29 is rigidly connected to the table above the joint of the table-legs. This allows the stove to be folded without disturbing the position or setting of the main distributing pipe, and, further, by connecting said oil-distributing pipe 29 with the top plate and placing the pipe bodily above a horizontal line taken through the centers of the hinge-joints of the folding legs, the latter fold inward upon and protect the pipe from injury during transportation and at other times when the stove is folded.

31 represents a branch distributing-pipe connected to the main pipe by elbowcouplings 32, which allows it to be taken off, so to allow the legs of the stove-frame to fold, and to have it set up out of the way when the stove is in its folded position. This distributing-pipe 31 supplies burners for the openings lat of shelf 9 in the usual manner.

33 represents a faucet tapping the watertank to allow water to be drawn off. 3i represents an opening for filling said tank. The shelf 26 is held or maintained in its open position, as shownin Fig. 1, by means of a brace or bracket of the same form of construction as shown in Fig. 6.

35 represents the-face of the bracket, which rests against the under side of the shelf 26. The arm 36 extends along the bottom plate 1. 37 represents screwholes in the top of said arm, and 40 screw-holes in the top of the stove-plate 1, into which screw-bolts are inserted to secure the brackets in position.

\Vhen it is desired to fold the stove up, this bracket is taken off, pipes 22, 23, 28, and 31 detached, drip-pan (5 detached, the ovenshelf 9 detached, and the legs of the stove readily folded up, as shown, the shelf, with its contained tanks 15 16, turned around over onto the under side, thus reducing the space occupied by the folding stove to about onethird of that which it occupies when it is set up in position for ordinary use.

Ilaving described my invention, what I claim as new is-- l. The combination, with the top plate 1 of a gasoline-stove and the burner carrying distributing-pipe 29, located beneath and supported by said top plate, of the depending legs 3, secured to the top plate and having flanges 3S), and the folding legs 4, hinged to said depending legs at a point below the distributing-pipe to fold inward below the distributing-pipe, and provided with steps 38 to hold them in a vertical position, substantially as described.

2. The combination,with the top plate 1 ofa gasoline-stove, of the fixed depending legs secured to the top plate, the folding legs 1, hinged to said fixed legs to fold inward beneath the top plate, and the drip-pan 6, detachably connected with the lower portions of said folding legs to brace and hold thelatter, substantially as described.

8. The combination, with the top plate of a gasoline-stove, of the fixed legs 3, secured to the plate and having the flanges 39, and the folding legs 1, pivoted to the fixed legs below said flanges and having the steps 38 above the pivots, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the top plate of a gasoline-stove, of the fixed legs 3, secured to said plate, the folding legs 4, pivoted to the fixed legs to fold inward beneath the plate and having cross-rails 8, and the drip-pan 6, having hooked edges 7, detachably engaging the cross-rails, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with the top plate of a gasoline-stove, of the fixed legs 3, secured to said plate and having stop-flanges 39, the folding legs 4-, pivoted to the fixed legs and having the steps 38 and cross-rails 8, and the drip pan 6, detachably engaging the eross-rai substantially as described.

0. The combination, with the top plate 1. of a stove, of the legs 3, fixed to the top plate, the legs 4, pivoted to the fixed legs and hav ing the upper and lower cross-rails 13 and 8, the shelf 9, having the hooked edge 12, detachably engaging the top cross-rail, and the bracket 10, secured at one end to the shelf and having at its other end the hook 1.1, do}

tachably engaging the lower cross-rail, substantially as described.

7. The combination, with the top plate of a gasoline-stove, of the burner, the distributingpipe 29, arranged under the top plate, the tubular water-heater 17, the detachable c011- necting-pipes 22, 23, and 28, the bracket 25, hinged to the top plate and having the shelf 26, the movable bracket-supporting arm 36, and the gasoline and Water tanks secured to the under side of the shelf to swing therewith beneath the top plate, substantially as described.

8. The combination, With the top plate 1, the burner, and the tubular heater 17, of the bracket 25, hinged to the top plate and having the shelf 26, the movable bracket-supporting arm 36, the water-tank 15, secured to the under side of the shelf, and the detachable pipes 22 and 23, connecting the ends of the tubular heater with the tank, substantially as described.

9. The combination, with the top plate 1, of the burner, the distributing-pipe 29, arranged thereunder and supported thereby, the bracket 25, hinged to the top plate and having the shelf 26, the bracket-supporting arm 36, the gasoline-tank 16, secured to the under side of the shelf, and the detachable pipe 28, connecting the tank and distributing-pipe, substantially as described.

10. The top plate of a gasoline-stove provided with fixed legs 3, having hinged in- Wardly-foldin g legs 4, in combination with the oil-distributing pipe 29 for the burners, connected with the top plate and located entirely above the hinge-joint connecting the folding legs with the fixed legs,.so that the folding legs fold upon and protect the distributing-- pipe, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set Witnesses:

ROBERT ZAHNER, J. WATsoN SIMS. 

